Office life before the invention of AutoCAD and other drafting software.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 23, 2026
Prior to the release of AutoCAD in 1982, engineering drawings were all done by hand using different grade pencils, erasers, T-squares and set squares. pic.twitter.com/eO7jlEBxWi
Shouldn't we all be eternally thankful to Christopher Nolan that, thanks to his new movie, a large part of the world population now knows there is a great story from antiquity called The Odyssey?
— Eduard Habsburg (@EduardHabsburg) July 23, 2026
And know the key story beats?
(Might even - gasp - check out the book?) pic.twitter.com/RCDpshmU5x
Call of the cassowary 🦖🔊
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) July 23, 2026
📽: suryantoraptor/igpic.twitter.com/HOYCWakHtE
Dogs and their skill of befriending literally everything. pic.twitter.com/pUqwoVamkK
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 23, 2026
People with advanced degrees, but mid to lower incomes are most likely to vote Democrat.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 21, 2026
People without college degrees, but mid to higher incomes are least likely to vote Democrat.
Tells you everything you need to know. https://t.co/68nAavKFSk
This is one of the most remarkable surviving treasures of early English Christianity. A silver pectoral cross, discovered in the Galloway Hoard and buried around AD 900, was almost certainly worn by a senior churchman. Experts believe it was likely made in Northumbria, reflecting… pic.twitter.com/yg0d92LzGx
— Mark Lambert (@sitsio) July 22, 2026
Orwell's most brilliant observation in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was that reducing a person's vocabulary also reduces his capacity to think.
— Athenaeum Book Club (@athenaeumbc) July 17, 2026
Reading old or difficult literature will unleash the full potential of your mind.
Great video 👇 https://t.co/RTyN8glRbX
Umberto Eco owned around 50,000 books between his two libraries. He once said about buying books:
— Barbarian Herodotus (@BBHerodotus) July 22, 2026
"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like… pic.twitter.com/23sxjgFRXn
Following a standard workplace safety check, I have just received an email from a university administrator in which my custom of keeping books on the shelves in my office is described as "the unnecessary storing of combustible materials". pic.twitter.com/0f7z2OLsSS
— Christopher Fear (@ChristopherF198) July 22, 2026
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